Mini Consoles: Mega Drive - Our Dream Line Up (Part 1)

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The header image for this episode's show notes was taken by Squidge, over in the Tecnodrome, and features some of his favourite recent pickups.

Players

Squidge

Jay

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Show Notes

Since we’d talked about them so much, we thought that we’d start a few episodes on those mini consoles. Since I’d been writing about them recently, I thought that we should do an episode or two on them.

in case you’re wanting to read what I had to say about them, click here for those blog posts

We’d also brought up the concept of mini consoles with Chief in a recent episode. That segment may or may not have prompted this discussion.

In this first episode, I gave Squidge a challenge:

Jay:

Imagine that you have an unlimited budget (to deal with licensing issues), go through the games on the Mega Drive Mini and replace the ones that you’ll never play with ones from your dream line up

And that’s precisely what we did. We each went away, looked at the line up of the games on the UK Mega Drive Mini, listed the ones we wouldn’t want, and came up with a list of replacements. The only caveat being that I didn’t see Squidge’s list before we recorded, but he saw mine.

I’m not going to lie, the idea for this episode was totally influenced by Arcade Attack’s episode on the same subject

here’s a link to that episode - from May 2018

but I think you’ll agree that our dream line-ups differ.

But before we got started on the actual game swappage

that’s a word, right?

we discussed the hardware in the Mega Drive, and how it was just a re-dressed Amiga.

In a slight break from the norm, the rest of the show notes will be the list of games that we swapped out during this episode.

Jay:

If you can be a shark, be a shark!

Our Dream Mega Drive / Genesis Mini

Remember that this is just part one of our dream line up, we still have half of the list to cover

that’ll be part two

And we’re also going to do the same with the PlayStation Classic

that’ll be part three

They’re all recorded, but I’m really interested to hear which games would be in your list. Let us know either on here, over on Twitter or on our Facebook page

External Links of Interest

• Support us on Ko-Fi
• Our Facebook page
• Us on Twitter
• Arcade Attack’s Similar Episode
• Arcade Attack’s Dream Mega Drive Line-up
• Sega Genesis Mini Tier List - All 42 Games RANKED - G to The Next Level
• Altered Beast – Zeus, Save Your Own Damn Daughter! by Squidge
• Contra WITH LYRICS - Brentafloss
• The Evil Queen Pulsating, Bloated, Festering, Sweaty, Pus-filled, Malformed, Slug-for-a-Butt
• Resident Evil Zero - Save Room Theme by Mono Memory
• Golden Axe – So shiny… I want one! by Squidge
• Mini Console Dream Line Ups

Music

Links to the music used in the podcast can be found below. Definitely check them out, because they're amazing tracks by awesome musicians.

• Intro music is Behind the Lines by Ian Sutherland
• Spoiler Break music is Spectrum (Subdiffusion Mix) by Foniqz (BandCamp)
• Pallet Cleanser music is Breath Deep Breath Clear (Wu Chi) by Siobhan Dakay
• Outro Music is I N e e d Y o u 私の側て by G.H (removed from BandCamp)